Department Gift

Online Mapping

Geography students have created online map products with the assistance of Cathie Benjamin, the department’s Instructional Support Technician. Products from Groups 1 and 2 were funded by the National Science Foundation and by Student Learning Fees. The links in Group 3 point to geography graduate projects, and Group 4 maps were produced during an Advanced GIS class. In that class, each student partnered with a campus or community group to produce a focused map that would be linked online from the group’s website. For example, the “Nome Cult Interactive Map” showed the location of the Nome Cult Trail for the Department of Anthropology, and the “City of Chico Volunteer Site Locator” helped volunteers find their meeting places. All maps are viewable at the links below and will be hosted on the department’s GIS Server for two years after graduation as a portfolio example of each student’s work. This assignment required communication skills, GIS expertise, technical cartographic decisions, and some guided web programming using Notepad.